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  • 91skin-deep — {adj.} Only on the surface; not having any deep or honest meaning; not really or closely connected with what it seems to belong to. * /Mary s friendliness with Joan is only skin deep./ * /Ralph crammed for the test and got a good grade, but his… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 92skin-deep — {adj.} Only on the surface; not having any deep or honest meaning; not really or closely connected with what it seems to belong to. * /Mary s friendliness with Joan is only skin deep./ * /Ralph crammed for the test and got a good grade, but his… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 93Ellen Fairclough — Ellen Loucks Fairclough, née le 28 janvier 1905 à Hamilton, Ontario, décédée le 13 novembre 2004 dans la même ville, a été la première femme membre d un cabinet ministériel canadien et la première femme à assumer par intérim la fonction de… …

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  • 94Davies, (William) Robertson — (28 ago. 1913, Thamesville, Ontario, Canadá–2 dic. 1995, Orangeville, Ontario). Novelista y dramaturgo canadiense. Davis, formado en la Universidad de Oxford y docente en la Universidad de Toronto, fue durante muchos años director del Examiner de …

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  • 95inherent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. native, innate; intrinsic, essential. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. innate, inborn, inbred, indigenous to, intrinsic, internal, original, native, deep rooted, built in, latent, implicit, ingrained,… …

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  • 96natural — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unaffected, spontaneous, artless, unstudied; unsophisticated, naive, ingenuous; normal, ordinary, regular; unadorned, unadulterated; inherent, innate, inborn. See simpleness, intrinsic, conformity,… …

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  • 97skin-deep — adj Only on the surface; not having any deep or honest meaning; not really or closely connected with what it seems to belong to. Mary s friendliness with Joan is only skin deep. Ralph crammed for the test and got a good grade, but his knowledge… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 98Fleisch — 1. Alles Fleisch ist Heu. – Psalm 101, 12; Schulze, 38. Jeder Mensch ist sterblich. Frz.: Tout ce qui est chair, est périssable. (Gaal, 467; Starschedel, 395.) 2. Alt Fleisch gibt fette Suppen. – Winckler, II, 95; Henisch, 1135; Petri, II, 13;… …

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  • 99banker —    This term is probably used more frequently to someone acting as banker in a game of cards or some other game, than to a person engaged in banking activities as a profession. In What’s Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies, a speaker… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 100Ellen Louks Fairclough — Ellen Fairclough Ellen Fairclough Premier ministre du Canada (par intérim) …

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